Seroatlas · Human Serome Atlas

FNDC5

Fibronectin type III domain-containing protein 5

Also known as: FNDC5_HUMAN, FRCP2

Cross-references: UniProt · Ensembl · Human Protein Atlas · GeneCards · NCBI Gene

Protein identityUniProt · HPA

UniProt accession
Q8NAU1
Gene
FNDC5
Ensembl
ENSG00000160097
Chromosome
1
Canonical length
260 aa
Protein class
Predicted membrane proteins
Secretome location
Intracellular and membrane

OverviewNCBI Gene

This gene encodes a secreted protein that is released from muscle cells during exercise. The encoded protein may participate in the development of brown fat. Translation of the precursor protein initiates at a non-AUG start codon at a position that is conserved as an AUG start codon in other organisms. Alternative splicing results in multiple transcript variants. [provided by RefSeq, Jun 2013]

Canonical amino-acid sequenceUniProt

260 residues, UniProt reviewed canonical sequence.

>Q8NAU1|FNDC5
     1  MQAARGGAGR PERPGRPGRG PERERERPPG AGAASPCAAP GLPAGGATIH PGSPSAWPPR
    61  ARAALRLWLG CVCFALVQAD SPSAPVNVTV RHLKANSAVV SWDVLEDEVV IGFAISQQKK
   121  DVRMLRFIQE VNTTTRSCAL WDLEEDTEYI VHVQAISIQG QSPASEPVLF KTPREAEKMA
   181  SKNKDEVTMK EMGRNQQLRT GEVLIIVVVL FMWAGVIALF CRQYDIIKDN EPNNNKEKTK
   241  SASETSTPEH QGGGLLRSKI

LocalizationUniProt · AlphaFold · HPA

Whether an antibody against FNDC5 can act on the native protein depends on physical access: surface and secreted proteins are reachable by circulating antibodies, intracellular proteins usually are not.

Antibody reachability
Cell surface
Secreted
No
Transmembrane segments
1
Mean surface accessibility (rSASA)
0.51
Highest tissue expression
446 nTPM

Expression across tissuesHPA

Tissue

  • tongue: 446 nTPM
  • skeletal muscle: 303 nTPM
  • cerebellum: 49 nTPM
  • choroid plexus: 45 nTPM
  • heart muscle: 40 nTPM
  • salivary gland: 24 nTPM

Single-cell type

  • retinal amacrine cells: 45 nCPM
  • retinal pigment epithelial cells: 43 nCPM
  • adrenal medulla cells: 43 nCPM
  • retinal bipolar cells: 41 nCPM
  • choroid plexus epithelial cells: 39 nCPM
  • myonuclei: 37 nCPM

Immune cell

  • basophil: 0 nTPM
  • classical monocyte: 0 nTPM
  • eosinophil: 0 nTPM
  • gdT-cell: 0 nTPM
  • intermediate monocyte: 0 nTPM
  • MAIT T-cell: 0 nTPM

Brain region

  • choroid plexus: 115 nTPM
  • thalamus: 76 nTPM
  • cerebellum: 58 nTPM
  • hypothalamus: 49 nTPM
  • midbrain: 44 nTPM
  • medulla oblongata: 36 nTPM

Genetic constraint and essentialitygnomAD · DepMap

Does the body need this protein intact? Low LOEUF or a strong DepMap dependency means loss or blockade of the protein is likely to be felt.

gnomAD LOEUF (loss-of-function intolerance)
0.73
gnomAD pLI
0.55
gnomAD missense Z
0.6
DepMap mean gene effect
-0.01
DepMap dependency class
selective

Cancer expressionTCGA

Across TCGA tumor cohorts, this protein is over-expressed in roughly 3% of surveyed tumor types (aggregate summary; per-cohort expression, alteration, and survival load in the interactive view).

OntologyGO

Biological processes

Molecular functions

Cellular components

Protein domainsUniProt · Pfam · InterPro

KeywordsUniProt

Antibody and autoantibody relevanceSeroatlas analysis

Seroatlas reads FNDC5 as an antibody target. Whether an autoantibody or antibody against FNDC5 could matter depends on whether native FNDC5 is physically reachable, whether the body needs it intact, and whether it acts in a disease-relevant tissue.

FNDC5 is annotated at the cell surface, where native FNDC5 is exposed to circulating antibodies and is a prime autoantibody target that could block, deplete, or overstimulate it.

Annotation status

The present source text does not explicitly label FNDC5 as an autoantigen. Seroatlas presents hypothesis context only and does not manufacture a known-serology claim.

Canonical record: https://seroatlas.com/gene/FNDC5. Study-independent annotations aggregated from UniProt, Human Protein Atlas, PubMed, IEDB, Pfam, InterPro, Gene Ontology, AlphaFold, gnomAD, DepMap, ClinVar, TCGA. Catalog release seroatlas-reviewed-human-uniprot-20260313.

Seroatlas is the reference for exploring autoantibody and antibody serology at the human-protein level: the autoreactome and human serome, multiplex serology (HuProt, HuScan, VirScan, PhIP-Seq).

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